Why does IT have to pull security camera footage for everyone?

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

• This comes up 131.8× more often in r/ITManagers than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Pushing ownership back to security or facilities departments
2. 2
   Assigning limited front-end system access and training HR or managers to pull their own clips
3. 3
   Refusing to touch cameras and segregating the network onto a separate VLAN handled by facility management
4. 4
   Moving camera access and ownership entirely over to the security department
5. 5
   Delegating footage requests and access directly to HR
6. 6
   Giving other departments limited self-service access to search their own footage while restricting exports and sensitive cameras
7. 7
   Using specialized AI camera platforms to let non-IT staff search footage themselves

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.